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Peace through strength and not war used to be in style. It used to be celebrated.

@willscl @davepl1968 I said no such thing.

@Tech_8bits @davepl1968 you talk like Tahoe was a flawless release

Apple would just make everyone rewrite their control panel applets one day (and in a new language). Maybe with a different CPU.

@deltasyn @davepl1968 Apple is seldom first mover on anything, i.e. Tablets, Smartphones, Smartwatches. They just make the more compelling product but taking time to see how things pan out and what users really want/need.

@Tech_8bits @davepl1968 MacOS also don't break with every new update. Turns out not jumping on the AI bandwagon really paid off.

@SawyerMerritt FOMU 🥱

NEWS: Amazon in talks to buy $9 billion satellite group Globalstar to try and better compete with Starlink. One complicating factor is that Apple owns 20% of ownership Globalstar. ft.com/content/abace0…

Undeniably the iPhone has tremendous power & capabilities but I miss the BlackBerry. The iPhone keyboard & typing experience is absolutely dreadful and the smartphone has turned into a distraction device rather than productivity device.

The most frustrating thing is AI potential, autonomous driving, robots, etc. will be fundamentally constrained by regulations and politics, aka lawyers and lobbyists. @elonmusk may be underestimating the constraints. It’s more than innovation and engineering problems.

If you think AI will rapidly replace doctors and lawyers you are drinking the kool aid. The same can be said about AI and other professions. Adoption of AI despite technological advancement & capabilities will be constrained by cautionary regulations, lobbying & human fear.

The most limiting of constraint of AI compute is electricity, but the most limiting constraint of AI adoption is legal & regulatory restrictions.

Clearly caution is prudent, but the snail pace for which robotaxi is rolled out contrasted with the far less safe rapid pace at which driver licenses are handed out to 16 year olds is stunning. FSD is obviously safer than new drivers which require a simple 10-15 minute driver's test.

@LeadersJunction The best product doesn't always win, sometimes it's the good enough product with perceived differentiators or business/consumer value, other times it's sunken cost or market timing. This often frustrates technologists who focus on technology superiority thinking best should win.

@LeadersJunction His response is so right. Too often technologists focus on technology, while missing customer experience and tangible business outcomes which is what sells products. Apple and Microsoft gets it, as do other tech companies, but the best mousetrap doesn't always sell the best.

Steve Jobs responds perfectly to a disrespectful question🤯

@StockSavvyShay @VanquishTrader Agree. Fate does love irony. He must have done a calculations and determined that building ground up xmoney makes more strategic sense but I think the most entertaining scenario is the best.

@VanquishTrader I'm rooting for Elon to buy $PYPL

STRIPE SAID TO BE CONSIDERING AN ACQUISITION OF ALL OR PART OF $PYPL

There needs to be a Grok app for the Apple Watch. @elonmusk @xai

True facts. AI will undoubtedly displace certain jobs, just as the industrialization age & computers did. It will also create new computer engineering jobs, as well as demand for plumbers, electricians, HVAC, networking & hardware technicians, builders, architects, construction workers, equipment builders, and other skilled labor. As the computers powering AI need electricity, cooling and maintenance, and buildings

Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.” “Well, AI is coming for the coders.” “It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.” “In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need 500,000 electricians in the next couple of years—not hyperbole.” “The BlueForge Alliance, who oversees our maritime industrial base—that’s 15,000 individual companies who are collectively charged with building and delivering nuclear-powered subs to the Navy … calls and says, we’re having a hell of a time finding tradespeople. Can you help?” “I said, I don’t know, man … how many do you need? He says, 140,000.” “These are our submarines. Things go hypersonic, a little sideways with China, Taiwan, our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear. They’re vulnerable.” “Our submarines matter, and these guys have a pinch point because they can’t find welders and electricians to get them built.” “The automotive industry needs 80,000 collision repair and technicians.” “Energy, I don’t even know what the number is, I hear 300,000, I hear 500,000.” “There is a clear and present freakout going on right now. I’ve heard from six governors in the last six months. I’ve heard from the heads of major companies.”

I disagree in part. At its core human thinking is also based on algorithms and processing of data. Psychotherapy for instance is aimed at reprogramming. AI will eventually be superior at thinking, analyzing and knowledge capacity. It’s inevitable and clearly AI is already analyzing information, reasoning, manipulating information, creating models and concepts. That said rational learning involves deep memory and context which clearly LLM’s lack at the moment. Computers also lack heart and soul so clearly consciousness is never achievable.

Finally, someone talking sense. AI is made of algorithms, which are structured sets of instructions. This makes it extremely effective at recognizing patterns and producing outputs based on statistical learning. But it is tiresome to watch people insist that it is somehow more than that, or that it will transcend the computational framework it runs on. It will not. There are limits to what formal systems can do. Spend a few minutes reading Kurt Gödel and his incompleteness theorems. Algorithms, precisely because they operate by fixed formal rules, will always encounter propositions that are true but unreachable from inside the system. In other words, even in theory, algorithms will always hit dead ends they can never solve. None of this denies that AI is powerful. It makes many tasks dramatically easier, for good actors and bad ones alike. But by design it is computation. It processes inputs according to predefined mathematical structures. That is not the same thing as thinking. And it certainly is not consciousness. At the hardware level, AI systems consist of billions or trillions of transistors switching between 0 and 1. That’s it. Scaling that up does not suddenly generate subjective awareness.

We have a physical world optimized for humans - doors, buildings, vehicles, manufacturing plants, paths, equipment, etc. Also the efficiencies of two legs, speed, mobility, compactness, etc. That said humanoids are natural generalized solution. No doubt other form factors will exist for specialized purposes.

I honestly don’t understand the point of making robots in the form of human beings. Why two legs and not four or six? Why two arms? Why are the eyes only in the front instead of covering 360 degrees? Why the vertical orientation that requires more balance? Is this simply to make humans feel a certain way about them?

@cb_doge Would anyone be surprised?

Imagine the chaos if President Trump tweeted this 🤣

@nandoprince93 It’s better than the revised Photo app which I know isn’t saying much.

How many people use the stock Email app form Apple? I havent used it in years cuz it was terrible. Is that still the case? Let me know if I should try it again!

@forestmanjohn Perfect except it absolutely needs a built in timer

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